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4,000 Years, Not 400! Most African Americans descend from the half million Africans who landed on the shores of North America as captives during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The vast majority came from Western Africa (shaded area below) whose history is a story of the rise and fall of many kingdoms and empires. In this [...][Continue Reading...]

A recent article from Broadly (a Vice website) discussed the fact that although HIV rates have fallen nationwide, they have increased among Black and Hispanic gay and bisexual men by 87 percent. It attributes the overall fall to community prevention methods but at the same time pointing to the lack of these same prevention methods [...][Continue Reading...]

4,000 Years, Not 400! Most African Americans descend from the half million Africans who landed on the shores of North America as captives during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The vast majority came from Western Africa (shaded area below) whose history is a story of the rise and fall of many kingdoms and empires. In this [...][Continue Reading...]

AKAN STATES The Akan States (usually pronounced ‘a-CAN’) were formed by the Akan people who are actually several related ethnic groups located throughout much of what is now the the nation of Ghana and the eastern portion of the Ivory Coast. The Akan subgroups share cultural similarities including the tracing of descent, inheritance of property, and [...][Continue Reading...]

The police shooting of Black citizens has garnered much attention over the past couple of years. Although there have always been hundreds of citizens shot by police every year, protests, marching, social media and organizations such as Black Lives Matter have kept these matters in the news. A few narratives have surfaced to either emphasize [...][Continue Reading...]

The San Francisco Bay View (National Black Newspaper) released its latest annual “Katrina Pain Index” which tracts statistics to highlight how changes in post-Katrina New Orleans have affected the Black community there. This years report is titled: Katrina Pain Index 2016: Race and class gap widening. Some highlights include: “Some 2,000 Black median income in New Orleans [...][Continue Reading...]

A New York Times article was written in response to the recent unrest in Milwaukee. It attempts to shed a light on how a considerable amount of the Black upper middle class live in poor neighborhoods. According to the article: “In many of America’s largest metropolitan areas, including New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, black families making $100,000 or [...][Continue Reading...]